Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis in the best interest of the individual. So we need to look at how much rugby any given player has had since the beginning of the year, the amount of contact, their position, plus any injury history.

Mike Ferguson

We could stand to lose a large amount of jobs.

Mike Huckabee

We could potentially be looking at taking an enormous amount of people from Houston, ... We're going to have to prepare in the event. It would tax us if we had to, but we would do it.

Jim Lehner

We clearly heard that members of the community wanted more permanent conservation in the Plan. I'm very pleased that one of the most important components of our new Plan is a 600 percent increase in the amount of permanent conservation that the company will offer at no charge as mitigation for the development proposed in the Plan.

Doug Elmendorf

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

Ken Macha

Both of us had a desire to manage back then. Guys who have trained themselves properly, gone to the minor leagues and managed and paid their dues coaching for a considerable amount of time and have a great understanding of the game in all aspects. Getting interviewed as much as both of us had been, you always get that feeling that this is never going to happen. I applaud the Devil Rays for giving him an opportunity to go out there and do it. His background is comparable to anybody's. He had the interim job with the Angels a few times and did a fine job.

Eiji Dohke

Bonds will probably stay strong. Further gains in the yen are a risk factor that can push down bond yields. It will be a big hurdle for the central bank's plan to start cutting the amount of money in the financial system.

Cody Wright

Both of them contain the same amount of total crude protein, but the protein is very different.

Paul Maurice

Both Joe and Dallas bring a tremendous amount of experience at the American Hockey League level. We believe their experience will be a tremendous asset to the success of our players.

Paul Duca

It is a lot of fun catching these guys. You have four guys who can throw a no-hitter at any time. That makes it interesting.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Willie Smith

We want him to catch everything in front of us. We don't want him to catch any long passes. If we can keep him over the middle, we have good linebackers that can make him pay.

Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I think: Oh boy! I'm going insane again.

Gus Cooper

We tried to figure out how we were going to pay for it, ... The Dunedin Country Club Foundation has come up with $15,000, which will go toward the bridge. That leaves $71,000. So how do you fund that?

Lawrie McKinna

It wasn't an easy start. To be honest, I was struggling financially as the club got off the ground.

Ani Difranco

I've got more than one membership to more than one club and I owe my life to the people that I love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

Jon Mills

For me, I hit a lot of 2-irons and on that course, I'll definitely be using that club a lot.

Barbara Harris

It's supposed to be dining restaurants, not discos. Everyone's trying to push the limit of what really is a club and what isn't.

Barbara Harris

It's supposed to be dining restaurants, not discos, ... Everyone's trying to push the limit of what really is a club and what isn't.

Paul Mott

They didn't really have a job in mind, but they knew I was knowledgeable about the game and passionate about the game, ... Paul Phipps is one of the great pro sports executives around, and I went to work with him for club services. It was a great learning experience for me, and we had some real success.

Don Adams

They are dedicating their energies to make this a very upscale and comfortable club without being pretentious.

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Badia Aref

In the next two days he will be visited by his family including his grandchildren and daughter.

John Pickett

In the past four days prior to Friday we packed in two weeks worth of work. On Tuesday people didn't just get hit; they got decked.

Pam Beckstrom

In the older days when we ran the 500-mile race, we started in Helena and ran to Park Lake before doing the restart in Lincoln. That wasn't a great trail for dogs. It was too hard.

O. Singh

If you talked about it two days ago, if you would like to be 1 up, you'd take it, ... I think we're in very, very good position.

Wim Duisenberg

In 100 days the euro will be in our pockets.

Rick Wagoner

In '02 we had another good year in improving productivity in salaried work force. What we're trying to do is make this a regular mind set around here, ... You can't have an ounce of fat these days and meet the pricing and the investments and the profitability targets we're shooting for.

Newt Gingrich

in 60 days they'd become slower and less competent.

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

Louis Post

I think everybody knows I'm interested in managing again.

Annika Sorenstam

I think everybody is saying the same thing. I'm very impressed, me personally. I think they've done a good job in every way.

Davis III

I think everybody is happy in Florida. Everybody has improved, and that's the thing we've been trying to tell the other players - that the whole new system has made everything better.

Mark Schmidt

We're a little banged up, but everybody is banged up this time of year. No excuses.

Scott Walker

We played real physical, with everybody contributing. It's not about one or two guys hitting. It's about one or two guys hitting every shift.

Jon Jansen

I think he's been validated. Everybody was talking last year about how he was a 'system' back and maybe didn't fit our system and wasn't going to be productive here. But here we are at 10-6, going to the playoffs, and he's a 1,500-yard back. Those questions are answered.

Michael Thompson

We're all so relieved we finally played an event, ... We wanted to go show everybody what we're made of and that we're still going. Tulane is moving along.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Bobby Patrick

My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it.

Jacoby Shaddix

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

Marsilio Ficino

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

O. J. Simpson

We had five feet of water. And now our house has a slant to it and it's not safe. So, we're going to rebuild.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Bruce Armstrong

We've had quite a few vehicles slide off the highway.

Robert Brunn

We've had quite a few kids sick and a lot of rookies out there, so there were nerves going on. But I'm pleased with the play. Most of our matches were more even than the scores indicated.

Sally Brown

Every match from here on out will be tough and we will need to be ready to play. It will be interesting to see how we respond in these next few weeks.

Peter Morgan

At this point, there are well over 60,000 solutions saying they can help with SOX in some way. But few come prepackaged and few have everything that's needed.

John Urquhart

At this point, students in the cafeteria -- and there was quite a few of them -- went in pretty much all different directions.

Oscar Isaac

There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.

Jordan Casas

We had some big plays. But we ran some things for the first time tonight. We need to make a few adjustments. I thought we executed when we needed to.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Chris Rider

We're pretty happy. We're 5-2, we've already played five games on the road and we're 2-0 in the OCC. We're in good shape.

Seymour Cassel

I was born in Detroit, then shortly after I was born, I went on the road with my mother, who performed with Minsky's, a variety show that toured around the U.S. doing five shows a day.

Mike Costello

I thought the first five minutes of the second half was good. Overall, I was happy with it. It wasn't perfect by any means ... and even though it's a game we should win, we still have to come in and get it done.

Sandy Price

I thought they were going to turn it around. I was really hoping we could go to a game five because they really had the momentum starting to go their way.

John Radcliff

I think we have five pretty good sprinters. We're going to move them around. With the numbers we have, we could have some reasonable depth. It won't be out of the question to get multiple points in several events.

Michelle Beall

I think we could have won our first five games, I just don't know what happened.

Evan Lysacek

I think when I was about 14 or 15 I decided, ?I think I'm going to go to the Olympics. So for about the last five years I've been thinking about it every day. Every single day.

Randy Edsall

I think it's working out very well. It's good because all five of those guys or all 15 of those guys are in the same room and they're hearing the same thing. Not that there was a problem, but I think those five always have to work together.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Mark Cross

We saw some things that we can work on. In Wilson we got away from our passing game, and it hurt us, but we had three games this week, and I think they still have a little on their minds about this weekend. We can make good things happen for us out of these games (lopsided wins) if the girls let it happen.

Nathan Vasher

We know that it's on us. We know that you can win games without putting up 100 points a game. We've seen it before. We know what we have to do.

Brad Shaw

We feel like we probably have to get to the 90s. But we can't win 10 out of 12 games in one night.

Scott Skiles

We feel like they are all must games now. We have to put together a string of wins, but that will be tough to do.

Dave Powell

We feel like the kids are playing well and getting better, but it has been two tough games away from home to start the season. We couldn't quite get over the hump.

Renaldo Garcia

We don't win games in warm-ups. We don't look like an intimidating team.

Tim Martin

You don't know what could happen with other games in the district. But I think if we win all of our remaining home games, it will give us a realistic opportunity.

Courtney Harris

You get used to playing two games a week during the season, then you have a while off and practice can get kind of repetitive. We held them to 31 points and that's pretty good, but we have to do better offensively.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Viggo Mortensen

It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

Victor Cruz

I don't need any nicknames.

Victor Hugo

God knows better than we do what we need.

Victor Hugo

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

Vernon Howard

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Veronica Roth

We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless. -Tori

Veronica Roth

I need the protection of seeming weak.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Don Henley

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

Dwayne Johnson

When you walk up to opportunities door, don't knock it... Kick that B*tch in, smile and introduce yourself

Claudia Cardinale

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

Dalai Lama

It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

Dalai Lama

Each of us has the potential to contribute ... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

Retief Goosen

We made the right putts at the right time, ... We played solid. We played good. The pressure was always on them.

Jason Miller

We made some plays ... and we played solid defense.

Bob Hofman

He was really good. He really played well.

Corky Palmer

He's played well. We'll have to see how it goes.

Terry Goodson

He's played that position for all of one day.

Rick Comley

He's played really well. As long as he plays well, I'll probably go with him.

Phil Jackson

He had a so-so game. He played adequately.... Everybody's a work in progress right now.

Lyndsey Medders

I prefer not to talk about my foot. I played the game.

Marty Turco

I played more shots than what we want to see.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Will Rogers

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Zakk Wylde

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Anthony Hopkins

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

Anthony Hopkins

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Alison Bechdel

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Alicia Keys

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

Alice Walker

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

Alice Cooper

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

Andy Roddick

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

Alastair Campbell

Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair]-Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.

Albert Finney

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.